Jefferson County, IA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

For Jefferson County, Iowa, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 51/100 (moderate). There are 16 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 13/100). The county's ZIP scores run from 7 up to 15/100.

In its peak phase, Jefferson County home prices rose 2.5% across the last year (phase confidence 28/100). At this stage of the cycle, broad sweeps stop paying so screen ZIP by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +2.5% YoY (28/100 confidence), selectivity rules well beyond the county average. A mid-cycle 51/100 lender reading implies a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

By composite, 52535 (15/100), 52585 (15/100), 52533 (14/100), 52556 (14/100), 52557 (14/100), 52567 (14/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Further scored ZIPs: 52580, 52635, 52651, 52540, 52554, 52576, 52563, 52654, 52641, 52588.

Demographically, Jefferson County's scored ZIPs show 11.8% of units sitting vacant, residents with a median age around 45.3, poverty running near 16.4%, home values averaging roughly $133,571, below the US, household income averaging about $62,417, below the national median, an owner-occupied share of 81%. These fundamentals drive which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

All in at 13/100 over 16 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition where the ZIP scores point. A DLRadar subscription opens every Jefferson County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

Because Jefferson County, Iowa is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Jefferson County against neighboring markets or the rest of Iowa on equal footing.

Jefferson County, Iowa is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Jefferson County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. The Jefferson County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

Drilling in, Jefferson County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 52535 (15/100), 52585 (15/100), 52533 (14/100), 52556 (14/100), 52557 (14/100), 52567 (14/100). DLRadar also scores 52580, 52635, 52651, 52540, 52554, 52576, 52563, 52654 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

Under Jefferson County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.